Mexico is a two-faced country: you can be influenced by cities like San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Mexico city and start to think that Mexico is a developed country but whereas on the countryside the states remain in what we would call "the third world".
Mexico shares its biggest border with the United States; for centuries, boundaries have been crossed and people have migrated back and forth.
Nowadays, illegal immigration is becoming a big problem in the US and crossing the border has become a risky but a rather common behaviour for Mexican people. The US has tried to respond to them by taking various measures which even includes the construction of a wall. But that is not stopping the illegal immigrants to flow in.
The point I'm going to develop is why Mexican people, even after knowing all the risks, keep trying to cross the border.
[...] To me, Mexican immigration is also linked with the question of development: Western countries have marked some countries as “under developed” or “developing”, which means they are not developed yet and should progress more and even people of those countries have accepted it. And since their country was “under developed”, some of them decided to leave it for their But what is development? Why do we impose our point of view upon other countries? Why is our lifestyle shown as lifestyle” we should all long for? [...]
[...] Illegal immigration in the United States: push-pull factors Mexico is a two-faced country: you can be influenced by cities like San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Mexico city and start to think that Mexico is a developed country but whereas on the countryside the states remain in what we would call third world”. Mexico shares its biggest border with the United States; for centuries, boundaries have been crossed and people have migrated back and forth. Nowadays, illegal immigration is becoming a big problem in the US and crossing the border has become a risky but a rather common behaviour for Mexican people. [...]
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